Auxiliary top for gas stoves



APil 8, 1930.-` G. G. GLENN 1,753,886 y AUXILIARY TOP FOR GAS STOVES Filed Sept. 28, 1927 l f 11111111111: v 0,

v Wz/f/z/ra/e) 4 fifa/G65 kf/v/V. J f MW @@9- Patented Apr. 8, 123'@ i 4 Unire PATENT OFFICE GEORGE Gr. GLENN, OF LONG- B'EACH, CALIFORNIA AUXILEARY TOP FR GAS STOVES Application lcd September 28, 1,927. Serial No. 222,565.

My invention relates to an auxiliary top which project slightly above the upper sur-v for gas stoves, the principal object of my inface of the top plate, and said ribs serving as vention being to provide a relatively simple, a support for cooking utensils that are placed inexpensive and practical device that may be on this end of the device.

conveniently used ,on gas stoves, gas plates Formed through that portion of the top and the like, and which device will be eifective l() opposite the portion that is provided with in utilizing heat that is otherwise wasted, and ribs 15 is a series of openings 16, preferably Consequently effecting a material saving of slots, and the materialof the top is pressed gaseous fuel. v upward between said slots to form ribs 17 i A further object of my invention is to prosimilar to the ribs 15, and which ribs 17 serve CD vide a device of the character referred to that as supports for cooking utensils.

may be readily used on practically all gas The slots or openings 16 are preferably stoves, and which device is provided with adformed so that their larger portions are disjusmble Supports in Order that it may be con posed adjacent to the corresponding rounded veniently used in connection with gas plates end of the housing, and thus the greater por- C5 of dierent heights. tion of the heated air and products of combus- With the foregoing and other objects in tion will travel the full length of the housing View7 my invention consists in Certain novel before escaping upwardly through the slots or features of construction and arrangement of Openings.

23 parts that will hereinafter be more fully de- Arranged on the sides of the housing adja` 70 scribed and claimed and illustrated in the ac- Cent to the end that is provided with the opencompanying drawing, in whichings 16 are substantially L-shaped legs 18, the

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an auxiliary vertical portions of which are provided with top of my improved construction. lslots such Vas 19. f 2* Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section tak- Seated in the side wall 12 of the housing are 75 en on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. bolts 2O thatproject outwardly through the Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on line 3 3 slots 19, and seated on the threaded portions of Fig. 1. of said bolts are winged nuts 21.

Fig.v 11 is a view looking against the under- As a result of the construction just deet Side of an auxiliary top of my improved conscribed the legs 1 8may be adjusted vertically S0 struction. so as to properly support the housing on gas The auxiliary top contemplated by my inplates of different heights and when the housvention comprises a shallow box-like strucing is used on top of a gas stove the legslS ture, preferably formed of sheet metal and may be swung into out-of-the-way positions comprising a top plate 10, a bottom plate 11 as illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. S5

and a side wall 12; the latter being bent in The legs 18 are locked in their variously semi-circular form so as to produce a strucadjusted positions by tightening the winged ture having rounded ends. At one end of nuts 21 on the bolts 20.

this sheet'metal housing the bottom plate l1 In the use of my improved auxiliary top in is cut away to provide a circular opening 13, connection with one of the burners of a gas which when the device is positioned on top of plate the housing-is positioned on top of the a stove or gase plate, occupies a position diplate with the opening 13 over one of the rectly over one of the burners B of the stove burners of said plate and that portion of theor plate as illustrated in Fig. 2; it being unhousing that projects beyond the edge of the derstood that the top of the stove or the plate plate is support-ed by the legs 18. 95 is provided with an opening 14 above said A cooking utensil placed on the ribs 15 burner for the upward passage of flame and above the opening 13 is heated by the flame heated air from said burner. and products of combustion that arise from The top plate 15 directly above the openthe burner B, and the heat-ed air and products n ing 13 is provided with a series of ribs 15, of combustion that would otherwise be wasted will pass lengthwise through the chamber within the housing and escape through the opening 16, and this heat may be utilized by placing a cooking utensil on the ribs 17 that are arranged between the openings 16, thus practically all of the heat developed by one burner is utilized and a material saving in fuel costs is effected.

By using two of the auxiliary tops in conm neetion with a two-burner gas plate, the advantages of a four-burner plate or stove may be obtained.

Where the device is used in connection with an ordinary gas stove the housing is positioned over one of the burners, and when the same is lighted practically all of the heat developed thereby may be utilized for heating two different utensils positioned on the ribs 15 and 17.

20 An auxiliary top of my improved construction is comparatively simple, is inexpensive of manufacture, is effective in conserving gas used in the operation of lo'as stoves, gas plates and the like, and therefore effects a material 2; saving oi' fuel in the operation of such stoves and plates.

It will be readily understood that minor changes in the size, form and construction of the various parts of my improved auxiliary 3L; top of gas stoves may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described Without departing from the spirit of my invention, the scope of which is set forth in the appended claim.

I claim as my invention:

An auxiliary top for gas stoves and the like, comprising a housing having top and bottom plates, a Continuous side wall connecting the edges of said top and bottom plates, there beit ing an opening formed through the bottom plate at one end thereof, a series of radially disposed ribs pressed upwardly from the top plate directly above the opening in the bottom plate, there being a series of radially disposed openings formed through the end portion oi the top plate opposite from the end from whi ch the ribs are pressed which openings gradually increase in width toward the adj aeent rounded end of the housing, and L- 5] shaped supporting legs mounted on the side wall of the housing opposite the end that is provided with the bottom opening and the radially disposed ribs on the top plate, the upright members of which legs are slotted,

5L bolts passing through the side Walls of the housing and through the slots in said legs and nuts located on the threaded outer ends of said bolts for clamping the legs to said housing in differently adjusted positions.

In testimony Whereot- I afiix my signature,

GEORGE G. GLENN. 

